Calí, Grace

During the time of Merton's correspondence with Paul Tillich, Grace Calí Leonard was Tillich's secretary and editorial assistant at Harvard University. Now going by her maiden name of Calí in her later roles as journalist and freelance writer, her book entitled Paul Tillich, First Hand: A Memoir of the Harvard Years was published in 1996, which includes a chapter on Merton and Tillich.

asks Tillich's thoughts on sacred art for Merton's Art and Worship book / things that different denominations of Christians have in common / asks Calí for recommended books by or about Albert Schweitzer
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Merton agrees with Tillich's view of sacred art - need to focus on expressionism rather than realism / Merton responds to Calí's questioning of the monastic life and offers that it cannot be an escape from the "world" but an "acceptance of the highest responsibility and the most delicate and difficult freedom"
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